Scraping-tool.



J. DONNELLY.

SCR'APING TOOL.

ABPLlcATIoN HLED MAR. 1431916.

1,217,922. PatentefMan, 1917.

JOHN DONNELLY, OF BRANFORD, CONNECTICUT.

SCRAPING-TOOL.

specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 6, 1917.

Application filed March 14, 1916. Serial No. 84,078.

To all wkom z't may conce'n Be it known that I, JOHN. DONXELLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Branford, in the county of 'New Haven, State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Scraping-Tool; and I do hereby declare thel following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to the art of scraping tools, and more particularly to an improved, simple, and etfioient tool of this kind, especially designed for use in scraping cabinets and the like.

One of the object-s of the invention is to prevent chattering of the Cutting blade as it passes over the surface to be scraped.

' nother object of the invention is to provide a fiange on one of the clamping plates to act as a hand rest for the left hand.

Another object of the invention is to provide a clamping blade between two clamping plates, and provided with an enlarged rectangular opening, whereby the clamping plates ma v clamp the blade, with their greatest clamping action adjacent to and substan-. tially conforming to the Contour of said rectangular opening, thereby preventing turning of the blade.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a handle, having its beveled end engaging one of the clamping plates as shown, in order that the handle may bc adjusted in different angular positions, so that the handle may be adjusted angularly upwardly and laterally from a Vertical surface.

In practical fields the details of construction may necessitate alterations, falling,r within the scope of what is claimed.

The invention comprises further 'features and combination of parts, as hereinaftcr set forth, shown in the drawings and claimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspeetive view of a scraping tool, especially for cabinet scraping.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view, showing the means for clamping and holding the scraping blade to the handle.

Fig. 3 is a detail perspectivc view of the scraping blade.

Referring more especially to the drawngIS, 1 designates a suitable handle, preferably wood, one end of which is provided with a bevel 2. A screw stud is fastened to the ibeveled end of the handle, normal to the bevel, by causing the stud to make its own threads 4 in suitable sized hole 5, which may be vpreviously bored in the handle. The screw stud eXtends through the openings 6 and 7 of the vclamping plates 8 and 9, and through the large preferably rectangular opening 10 of the scraping blade 11, which is disposed between the two clamping plates, there being a wing nut 12 threaded on the outer extremity of the screw stud, to bind against the clamping plate 9, and owing to the large preferably rectangular opening 10, the clamping plates will more firmly and tightly hug the scraping blade, owing to the vacant space caused by said large opening, that is, particularly when the Wing nut is screwed jam against the lclamping 'plate 9. It is to be noted that the scraping blade and the clamping plates are 'preferably the same width. The scraping blade is provided With upper and lower scra'ping or Cutting' edges 18 and 14, said edges being so disposed, that the blade may be inverted, that is, one edge for the other, without entirely removing the clamping plates. For inst'ance, the clamping thumb nut may be loosened, and the blade turned, so that the edge 14 may be used instead of the edge 18, and vice Jversa. The clamping plate 9 is provided near its upper part with a forwardly and upwardly extending fian'ge 15, constituting a hand rest, for the left hand of the operator, as the tool is drawn toward the operator, when the handle' is grasped in the right hand of the operator. .lloweveig even though this particular tool is preferably used'for cabinet scraping, the same being accomplished by drawing the tool toward the operator, it will be readily seen that the tool may be used equally as well for scraping other surfaces other than the surfaces 'of cabinets and the like, for instance, the tool may be used for scraping floors. lVhen sraping fioors,^the tool may be inverted, so that the fiange 15 may slide and engage the surface of the fioor to be scraped, and in this case the scraping blade should be So reversed, that one or the other of the Cutting edges would cut or sorape the floor surface when pushing the tool away from the operator. Tt is to be noted that the tool as a cabinet scraper. has its handle disposed so close to the surface being scraped, as to prevent the blade-from chattoring on the surface, as the tool is drawn toward the operator.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanying drawing it will be seen that a very simple efiicient and practical cabinet-scraping tool has been. devised,

-and one which comprises a construction,

which eliminates the expensive and impractical ball and socket joint, which is now used on a good many cabinet scrapers.

The invention having been set forth, what is claimed as new and useful is:

1. In a cabinet scraping tool, a handle, top and bottom clamping plates, means for securing the plates to the handle, Whereby tangulaz` opening, to permit the blade to be adjusted, whereby the fiange may be used as a hand rest or may engage the surface to be scraped, when the tool is inverted.

2. In a cabinet scraping tool, a handle, clamping plates, means for securing the plates to the handle at an angle to the axis of the handle, a scraping blade clamped between the plates, and provided with an enlarged rectangular opening, Whereby the blade can be adjusted and more firmly clamped by the plates, with their greatest clamping` action adjacent and conforming to the edges of the rectangular opening.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN DONNELLY.

VVitnesses:

JAMES A. MELLY, CHARLEs A. HoADLEY. 

